Several people were shocked and were about to give an order, Li Jie said, "You wait here with peace of mind, I said ten days later!" Then a group of archers on the opposite side raised their bows and fired their arrows, and after a buzzing sound, a hundred and ten great arrows were planted in the ground in front of them that they had never seen before. A cold feeling came from head to toe, and several people didn't dare to say anything anymore.

Yu Chi Baolin rode out of the queue and came to the front and shouted, "Hand over all the equipment, enter the camp to rest, and leave the valley by yourself in ten days!" The five thousand frightened Divine Commanders looked at each other. Suddenly, one of the soldiers threw away the steel knife in his hand and began to take off his armor. After taking off, he turned around and entered the camp, and in a moment the five thousand men disarmed. Several generals looked at it, "Take it off!" "A few people were surprised when they entered the camp, this was a newly built barracks, and it had been a few months. What is this Shouwang going to do? Li Jie looked at a few people, "You just have to stay here for a few days, and after ten days, you will go out of the valley by yourself." You haven't seen anything, so what am I going to do? It's not your business! After speaking, Li Jie beat his horse and left the camp.

Thousands of men and horses left the valley in formation, and the five thousand Shence troops hid in the camp in fear and did not dare to come out. Li Jie led people towards Tongguan. Li Jie is not in a hurry, after all, he is traveling on orders this time. The 2,000 cavalry of the front army was led by Li Tang, and he and Qin Fang, Xue Liang and 500 Zhuang Ding were in the middle of the army, and there were 2,000 giant archers and 1,000 pikemen in the front and rear. He was followed by Zhuang Hu and Zhuang Ding's family, protected by Xue Liang's 500 men and Cheng Moyu's 1,000 pikemen. All the people added up to more than 13,000, because there were people with them, the marching speed was not fast, and the Tongguan City Tower was only seen when it was almost dark.

Tongguan guard Qi Kerang led his team out of the city early to greet him, and the people camped outside the city, while Li Jie and others entered Tongguan. Tongguan history is called "the first risk in Jinnei", is "the key to the three Qin towns", "the throat of the four towns", since the establishment of the county at the end of the Han Dynasty has a history of several hundred years. It occupies the intersection of Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi, and is a place where soldiers have always been contested. Qi Kerang welcomed Li Jie and others into the Shuai's mansion to set up a banquet for hospitality. During the banquet, Li Jie asked Qi Kerang, "General, how is the defense of Tongguan?" Zi Kerang arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, the customs are well prepared, and the humble duty is guaranteed to be foolproof." Li Jie smiled: "That's very good! After the banquet, the servants led Li Jie to rest.

The next day, Li Jie led the men and horses out of the pass, and the army did not go fast every day, and camped for thirty miles to rest. Qin Fang and others once asked Li Jie, "Your Highness, why do you want to bring the people with you?" Li Jie thought for a while and said, "I didn't want to take them on the road, but the horse-drawn plows and gunpowder all appeared in the village, and I am afraid that the secrets will be revealed!" And when we are new to a place, the local people may not trust you and me. And they saw what I was capable of, so even though I forced them to follow me this time, they followed me despite their reluctance. And they were able to quickly help me open the situation and stand on my feet! As long as we have territory, they are the best role models. When they heard this, they stopped speaking.

Luoyang said that it was far away, but it was not close, and the army was moving slowly all the way, and countless displaced people who fled on the side of the road took refuge. Bodies were everywhere in the ditch on the side of the road, and a child was lying on his mother's body to nurse, but the mother had been dead for a long time. Many of the elm trees along the road had lost their bark, revealing their white and miserable trunks, and the children who were crawling on the trees and picking their leaves in the distance, and many of the villages that the army passed through were no longer inhabited. Li Jie has now lost the mood of not caring about anything at the beginning, and has become heavy. The nurse leaned out of the car and shouted Li Jie, Li Tu understood and nodded, Xue Liang rushed out and picked up the child and handed it over to the nurse. At the height of the camp in the evening, looking at the smoke of the camp, Qin Fang said: "Your Highness, since this morning, I have noticed that there are suspicious people near our team, maybe someone has already targeted us. When he said this, there was definitely a rare seriousness on his face. Li Jie smiled and said, "It's impossible to rob the road, I guess Tian Lingzi is not at ease, and there are big families nearby, don't worry about him and wait until he arrives in Luoyang!" The army camped thirty miles a day, and Li Jie walked unhurriedly.

On the seventh day, Li Jie suddenly ordered to speed up, and he rushed nearly 100 miles in three days, and the personnel were very tired. After setting up camp, Li Jie and his entourage casually found a dirt bag, stood up and looked around, the northwest direction is the mountain range, the northeast and southwest are a horse flat river, the southeast direction can vaguely see the undulating mountains, and the northeast direction can vaguely see a city, that must be Luoyang.

Li Jie, the commander of the Chinese army, sat at the back of the case, and everyone sat on both sides. Li Jie said, "The front is Luoyang, the capital of the gods, but I don't plan to go, I want to find a place to develop my strength, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!" Chen Ziqi! Chen Ziqi got up and handed over, "The minister is here!" "How much grain and grass are there in the army?" "Back to Your Highness, there are 70,000 stones of grain in the army, which can last the army for two months, and the grain in the hands of the people can be eaten for nearly four months!" Qin Fang arched his hand and said, "I don't know where Your Highness wants to go?" Li Jie pointed at Xue Liang, Xue Liang got up and replied, "The army turned to Mengjin in the southeast here, and crossed the Yellow River for nearly 100 miles, and there was a cottage in the mountains where you could settle down. Li Jie said, "Ming said that the army rested, armed to buy grain from the family, if they have grain, I will buy it at a high price, the more the better!" The next day, a large number of sergeants searched all around, and when they came across the high-walled compound, they knocked on the door. After opening the door, he asked to buy grain, two taels of silver per stone, and it was a chicken and a dog jumping for a while, but at this time, although everyone in the family had no ability to protect themselves. In two days, he forcibly bought 300,000 stone of grain from these big landlords and families. Li Jie made another decision: recruitment.

Hu Tie escaped from Huainan with his mother, begging all the way. It was also his luck that the old lady was so hungry that he inadvertently pulled out a one-meter-long yam from the ground. Relying on this yam old lady to get to Luoyang, Hu Tie helped a wealthy family in Luoyang to load a few carts of luggage, and they didn't treat him badly before leaving, a few cakes and a silver bean made him feel a lot more at ease. took the old lady to leave Luoyang and go to Chang'an, just two days out of Luoyang, he met Li Jie recruiting soldiers, asked for a family, and carried the old lady to the recruiting place. People look at a strong man and 1.8 meters. Immediately recruit as a giant bowman, there is no way that the giant bow is too big, and a small person can't pull it. sent the old lady to the back camp, and Hu Tie became a giant archer. In three days, 2,000 archers, 6,000 pikemen, and 2,000 sword and shield soldiers were summoned.

In the camp, Li Jie took Xing'er and Manniang to look around, stopping from time to time to talk to the soldiers. At the end of the day, Li Jie felt that the mood of the soldiers was not very high, and the newly recruited soldiers were basically just to feed themselves and their families. It was getting dark, but outside the camp a large number of refugees were reluctant to leave. Although they did not dare to get too close to the camp, their instinctive sense of security also made them linger in the vicinity all the time.

A scream alarmed Li Jie, and outside the camp gate, several strong men were beating a boy, who was firmly protecting the girl under him despite the blood on his face. Li Jie waved his hand, and a group of soldiers rushed out of the camp gate and surrounded several strong men. Li Jie asked, "Why did you beat him?" A strong man replied, "My lord, these two little guys stole the things of the head of the family, and the master of the house ordered me to arrest the people back!" "You're talking nonsense," the boy yelled. Li Jie pointed at the boy, "You say!" The boy said, "They're bad people, they take girls and sell them!" A lot of girls were locked up nearby by them" Li Jie was furious when he heard this, and waved his hand again! Awakening, who was patrolling the camp, rushed out with two teams of soldiers. Li Jie pointed at the child, "You follow him to rescue the children!" "Wake up"! "The kid went away with the Awakening and the soldiers. Li Jie stepped forward to help the girl, the child was only ten years old, and he was pitifully thin. Li Jie handed her over to Xing'er, who was already crying at this time, and Xing'er and Manniang took the girl into the barracks. Li Jie turned his head and looked coldly at the strong men who were already paralyzed in fright.

Half an hour later, he woke up and came back, bringing back a dozen girls, and seven or eight boys. Awakening's eyes were red, and the soldiers were glaring angrily. Qin Fang and the others, who rushed to hear the news, watched silently. Refugees gradually gathered around. Su woke up and bowed his hand in front of Li Jie, "Your Highness, I didn't bring people back!" Li Jie asked, "What's wrong!" Su Xing suddenly turned around and pointed at the strong men and said, "They are brutes, they take girls and sell them to brothels, and the boys break their hands and feet and go to the street to ask for money!" We went late, and several boys were dying of pain! Buried in the yard! Li Jie waved his hand angrily, "Kill!" "A few strong men were about to cry for mercy when they were stabbed to death by several pikemen.

Looking at the refugees coming up from the outside of the camp, there were also soldiers and families from the camp. Li Jie said very painfully, "The court is corrupt, and the people are not happy." Some people will jump out and say that they want to create a peaceful world for the people of the world. And the result? Villages and towns were destroyed and bulldozed wherever they passed, and all their belongings and food were looted. The people were coerced, and the slightest disobedience was stabbed. The old and weak were abandoned on the side of the road, left to fend for themselves, and the women were forced to become the tools of the soldiers to vent their desires, and even more miserable, when the army was short of food, they were directly ground into meat porridge with a stone mill, so that the soldiers were hungry, and those light and strong were coerced to the battlefield. ”

At this time, a thin child timidly raised his face and asked Li Jie: "Big brother, do you think we can survive in this troubled world?" Can those officials keep us alive? ”

The thin body, the blank eyes, the tattered clothes that can't cover the body, just like that, with a face full of sincerity and longing. Looking at the child's eyes eager for answers, Li Jie took a deep breath, he must give them a hope to live, this is his responsibility, this is his mission, so he calmly smiled faintly: "I don't know if we can live, maybe we will die in a certain war." ”

The boy's eyes instantly returned to their original grayness, and he lowered his thin head weakly. In this long and dark camp battlefield, every soldier, general, and scholar bowed their heads.